Did someone say Mando Buckets??
I have no idea how many mando buckets that I have moved over the last 5 years, afe. its been that many.
Hey, Clint
i have a dagger from TCW Embo if I send it to you can you resin cast it???
Micah p.
I think that I have that figure, Remus. He's the one with the cool shoulder armor, right?
yes
I have a mold or two to make for LE, remus, perhaps I can squeeze that part in and I certainly would like to get a mold together for that shoulder armor piece.
Now, time for another bmf order update:
I have been swamped at work and am producing this mongo order alot slower than I or probably the buyer would like. I feel pretty crappy about it but there's not much I can do but trudge on with it. Anyhow, I did manage to get about half of the order shipped out yesterday as is shown in the first shot bagged up.
Hopefully that can give the buyer something to work on until I deliver the rest. I would have liked to have taken a shot of the entire order all assembled in it's huge glory but I was taking too long and had to get at least part of it out.
To give you all an idea what a chore this can be sometimes, I have taken some shots of part of the remaining parts to be filled for this order during their final production stages. Now, I had 23 remaining cw echo heads that I had to finish up today that had been cast and cleaned of their flash already but that had some of those troublesome air bubble holes that needed to be filled. Here are three shots of one of those heads where you can see holes in his scalp and holes that prevented his earlobes from fully forming.
Now what I would to to patch this particular part is fill the scalp hole and earlobe holes with superglue and then dip a piece of scrap resin into a pool of superglue accellerator and poke and hold it into the holes until the superglue hardened paying special attention to the angle of the pieces placement while patching the earlobe holes. The reason that I can't just spray the accelerant on is that for the first 1/2 second it makes the superglue very runny to the point where it would run away from it's initial placement position on the part. Also, the superglue tends to trap airbubbles in itself and the resin piece tends to force those air bubbles out. Anyways, the echo head in question ends up looking like this.
Now imagine that patching process times 23 echo heads
after the part is patched, I use sprue cutters to trim the resin scrap closer and then a hobby knife to whittle it to conform to the proper shape like this patched and re cleaned part in this pic.
sometimes the patching and cleaning process fails to produce the desired results and has to be done over again. I had to do that with 6 of these parts.
and in this last shot is the 23 echo heads all patched and cleaned now ready to be painted. this part of the process for these 23 heads probably took me 2-3 hours to complete today.
so to complete this order, I have to do the patching/cleaning process for the rest of the cw rex heads, the cw hollow arc trooper helmets, and the 40 stone rifles.
